A former top official overseeing the Justice Department’s voting section defended its wait-and-see approach to pursuing litigation as the Supreme Court takes up an Alabama redistricting case that could further erode Voting Rights Act protections.
“I do not think the section is overly cautious,” said Pamela Karlan, who departed in July as Civil Rights Division principal deputy supervising the voting section in the Biden administration. “The federal judiciary is hostile in some ways to an expansive reading of the Voting Rights Act, and we do ourselves no favors by filing lawsuits that ultimately will lead to the constriction of the ...
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